Apache Kafka – Old GigaOm

The team that created Kafka is leaving LinkedIn to build a company around it

on November 6, 2014

A trio of LinkedIn engineers, led by Jay Kreps, is taking the Apache Kafka technology they helped create commercial. Their new company, called Confluent, wants to enable real-time data processing in all sorts of companies, and is backed by Benchmark, LinkedIn and Data Collective.

Hortonworks gets more serious about real-time data with Kafka integration

on August 28, 2014

Hortonworks has added Apache Kafka to tis Hadoop software platform as a technical preview. Kafka isn’t the most popular tool in the world, but it’s widely used among large web companies, making it a useful add-on for luring customers of that ilk.